What do rangers do on their days off?

One of the reasons rangers are rangers is because we love being outdoors.

The National Trust was lucky enough to take ownership of Trevose Head near Padstow last September. Every time I have been there since and walked passed Mother Ivey’s Bay I have been telling myself that I must get down to the beach there at low tide to explore. So that’s exactly what I did the other day on a day off, and here’s some photos and videos of what I found:

Can you see the two limpets? (They’re covered in barnacles).

Is this how Celtic sea slugs cuddle?

Dog whelk diner. On today’s menu – mussels.

This is how mussels look after dog whelks have eaten the insides. The dog whelk makes the very neat hole in the mussel shell to access the flesh inside.

Dog whelks come in a variety of colours.

Leave only footprints. You can see where the limpets have been moving around on the rock.

Dressed limpet – seaweed and barnacles to disguise it, but weighty?

Sarah Stevens, Ranger, Tintagel to Holywell

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